CATALYST: Art as Activism - All Day, Waiting For Another Sun to Rise

Within this show at Summerhall, Molly Wickett reimagines a post-apocalyptic landscape through a queer and disabled lens.

About CATALYST: Art as Activism - All Day, Waiting For Another Sun to Rise

	31st Jan 2026 to 29th Mar 2026
	Wednesday - Sunday 11am - 5pm
	Summerhall 1 Summerhall , Edinburgh South EH9 1PL
	This is a free event
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‘Apocalypse_’ _has its roots in the Greek word, with apo (‘off’) and kalýptein (‘cover’) to form apokalýptein: uncover or reveal. Often articulated through a flood, the waters reveal what comes after. Wicketts post-apocalyptic infrastructure builds a world which continues after something which should be world-ending.

‘Otherness’ is what is unknown and diverges. By exploring a submerged landscape through othering, notions of crip time create a dystopian future connected to our shifting present socio-political landscape by utilising forms associated with decay and breakdown of matter in forests: fallen trees, fungi growing on dead wood, and barren soil. Crip time is the experience of time as impacted by disability, measured not by a numerical comparison but by the collective difference felt and created by disability.

Rather than indicators of what is lost, these sculptures translate a forest’s life cycle to develop a language of hope. Forms of metal fungi curve away from the sculpted wood into freestanding ones. Removed from their symbiotic relationship, these fruiting bodies become enlarged to span the trees themselves. Utopia, meaning ‘no place’, becomes part of her pre-occupation with a blurred boundary where Otherness becomes possible, and the near-future that we constantly move towards.

About the Artist
Themes of neurodivergence, ecology, time, and interdependence shape the terrain of Molly Wicketts practice. She is curious about how disabled experiences can expand and subvert time, and how materials may hold or express these ideas to create spaces and landscapes of Otherness.

Drawn to ideas of submergence and futurity, she investigates how sculpture can create an entry point into a world that shuts you out as much as it pulls you in. Her sculptures are tactile and bodily, shaped by a disability that shares its sensory lens with the viewer.

She has exhibited across the UK, with her first solo exhibition at Strange Field, Glasgow (2025), and a permanent sculpture in Formonthills, Fife (2024). She has been selected for group shows at the Handbag Factory, London (2025), Centrespace, Bristol (2025) and Hidden Door, Edinburgh (2025). She is the Fresh Air Sculpture Bursary recipient and will participate in their annual exhibition (2026). Graduating with an MA in Fine Art from Edinburgh College of Art in 2023, Molly has undertaken recent residencies at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (2024) and Hospitalfield (2025).

CATALYST: Art as Activism
Summerhall arts presents a season of four solo exhibitions by artists whose work advocates for social, political, environmental, or cultural change.

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CATALYST: Art as Activism - All Day, Waiting For Another Sun to Rise

Within this show at Summerhall, Molly Wickett reimagines a post-apocalyptic landscape through a queer and disabled lens.

About CATALYST: Art as Activism - All Day, Waiting For Another Sun to Rise

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